Mountain and Forest Kingdom

The long-term comfortable life not only caused Lawrence to gradually lose interest in women, but also his pursuit of justice and justice also weakened a lot.

Being served by others every day, especially being served by many people with gratitude and admiration, even if Lawrence reminded himself to stay rational every day, he was still affected by this kind of life.

Fortunately, Lawrence was still very sober. After Stella agreed to stay, Lawrence, who had lacked attention to the Green Forest Kingdom for a long time, quickly began to think about this area.

On the way back to Oak Castle together, Lawrence and Stella, who was sitting across from each other in the car, continued to talk about government affairs.

"Stella, I have thought about it seriously. Things with the Green Forest Kingdom are not suitable to be dealt with directly. I have thought about this before. If the elves are scattered, it will easily amplify the problem."

"What you want is peace, and you don't want the elves to massacre the weak. What I want to solve is the hostility between the two sides, so that both sides can coexist peacefully. It is neither the elves killing humans nor the humans retaliating against the elves. Let hatred It spreads endlessly.”

Stella looked at this young, powerful, kind and wise young man with reverence.

"You think more than me. All I can do is escape or muster the courage to resist, but you can tell me that I can do more. I hope to get your wisdom!"

Stella formally turned to Lawrence for help seeking a solution to her problem.

Lawrence felt that he was not that noble and wise, but being watched by the beautiful and serious female elf, he was embarrassed to speak too casually.

"The tip of the sword and the scabbard are both parts of the sword. Storms on the sea bring more than just water. Wealth is the source of endless fights between brothers and relatives. Life is like the waves of a river, ups and downs."

Lawrence said nonsense that he didn't even understand. Under the beautiful and thoughtful look of the female elf, he felt really tired talking like this.

"Hatred must be resolved, and struggle is always accompanied by sacrifice!" Lawrence said seriously: "I will send my warriors to hide among the foreign refugees. If the next batch of elves who go hunting are killed, or fail to escape, Go back, then they will understand the danger of stretching their hands into the flames!"

"The relationship between humans and elves is not that of wolves and sheep, or wild beasts and prey. It is just like the relationship between extraordinary beings and humans here. Not only these, but even priests who believe in God can coexist peacefully with everyone."

Lawrence opened his hands, "This is the kind of world I want to create. This is how God guides us. We are all creatures on this land. It is true that some are strong and weak, and some are born extremely powerful, but this is not because they harm others. reasons."

"Those elves killed were not my slaves, nor my people or friends, so I will not dwell on the past."

Lawrence behaved very magnanimously. In fact, this matter was a matter for the refugees and elves of the Kingdom of Kojako. Unless Stella stood up against her own people, Lawrence would not care about this kind of thing at all.

"But this kind of thing is very dangerous. What they have done will remain in everyone's memory, including their own cognition. I don't think peace can continue like this."

"In my memory, two hostile countries can resolve their differences again, or they can fight back and forth a few years ago and become friendly a few years later. However, there must be some butchers with blood on their hands. Go down and atone for your sins.”

"In other words, I will set traps to kill some of the elves who participate in hunting humans, whether they are men or women, old people or children."

"The war can only be stopped if the aggressor feels the pain, not justice or the protests of the weak."

Lawrence decided to inflict pain, but also considered Stella's feelings. After all, it might be her friend who died.

Stella nodded without any hesitation and said: "This is what should be done. I will pray and lay flowers for these dead elves, but I also think they should have such an end. I will stay in Dumu Port to help maintain security and help More elves know this god-given land."

Stella thinks there is nothing wrong with Lawrence’s approach.

This approach is very reasonable and kind, and even gives enough choices.

Lawrence breathed a sigh of relief, smiled and said, "Then you will live with me in Oak Castle for the next few days and become familiar with our living habits here. I have many things I want to know."

"Yes." Stella accepted this arrangement, "I am very happy."

Lawrence smiled and said: "Don't be so formal. Life here is comfortable and relaxed. I think after you experience our life here, it will be easier to understand what those powerful elves want."

Stella thought about Lawrence's words and quickly asked: "Just like several times before, powerful wise men like the Queen and Lady Dana like to enjoy extravagant and wasteful things, eating hundreds of kilograms worth of wheat in one meal. food?"

"Actually, it's more." Lawrence calculated the prices of cheap wheat and noble food, and said quickly: "But I think their efforts are worthy of the treatment I give them."

"For example, Dana, she spreads the knowledge of witchcraft in the Saintess Academy, which makes our system of extraordinary people more complete, and also makes my students and warriors no longer completely rely on guesswork about witchcraft."

"This knowledge played an obvious role in the battle with the Church of the Dawn."

"Whether it is botany, the control and discovery of bloodline power, or the popularization of elven writing and magic writing, Dana has contributed results that others cannot match."

"The value she created has improved education, agriculture, military and technology here."

"Elves like Dashil and Shuda also have a lot of room for development here. Shuda has provided me with a lot of medicinal crops and vegetables, and Dashil has helped solve the mountainous problem that hundreds of people could not finish. tunnel."

"The reason why you think they eat so much is because the Kingdom of Green Forest gives too little. Although the number of elves there is small, many of them have extremely excellent abilities. Do you want them to use this ability to serve more people?" Do people create space for survival and development, or do they hope that they will be used to slaughter the weak?”

"Of course, there is a third option, which is to trap these outstanding elves in the forest as per the Queen's arrangement as in the past, so that they will never know their own value or how good they are for the rest of their lives. "

Stella frowned and said in confusion: "But... the reason why our Green Forest Kingdom does not leave the forest is... we were killed by the Holy Light Church a lot in the past, and in the end we had no choice but to hide in the forest."

Stella explained: "We elves and some wizard tribes were all attacked by the clergy of the church. It was not until those clergy many years ago that the flat land was more suitable for growing wheat that they stopped setting foot in the forest."

Lawrence was immediately stuck, Dana didn't say anything about this kind of thing.

The technological level of this era was limited, and both humans and churches had large swamps that were undeveloped, so there was no need to compete with the elves for territory in barren forests.

The land of the elves is actually not fertile. The areas bordering the Kingdom of Kojako and the elves are all mountainous and hilly areas. Even the ports and fields given to the Kingdom of the Stars were considered barren lands by them.

When there is enough land, there is much less desire to attack externally. The overall strength of the elves is indeed not weak, but it will not be stronger than the Kingdom of Io, the Kingdom of Gran, and the Church of Dawn...

It might even be inferior to the current Hokuriku Three Kingdoms.

This is embarrassing... Lawrence quickly made amends: "No matter what the Queen has done or what she thinks, in fact, the current affairs have little to do with her, but as the Queen, she must have responsibilities."

Lawrence decisively appointed the Queen to take the blame.

Stella nodded, and then thought of the elf who went out to kill people just to eat meat and drink wine.

"You are right, Queen, she did something wrong." This must be the Queen's responsibility.

Lawrence breathed a sigh of relief, not wanting to talk about this kind of right and wrong topic anymore, and quickly changed to a more casual question.

"Do you have a good relationship with Dana?" (End of Chapter)